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MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF ARMENIA TO EXHIBIT ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
YEREVAN, JULY 27. ARMINFO. An exhibition of archaeological finds of
the last decade will be held in the State Museum of Armenian History
in the next few days, says the director of the Archaeology and
Ethnography Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Aram Kalantaryan.
The exhibition will present materials dating back from the paleolite,
early Iron Age, Urartu, Ahemenid Persia ancient Armenia. Kalantaryan
says that there is much to be shown. Found Agarak, Aragatsotn region,
in the last years was a unique columbary - the grave of a Urartu
prince (preliminarily VIII BC) which was unfortunately robbed in the
following centuries. Also exposed will be fossilized traces of animals
and plants living in the area 100,000-1 mln years ago as well as
obsidian arms of ancient hunters.
YEREVAN, JULY 27. ARMINFO. An exhibition of archaeological finds of
the last decade will be held in the State Museum of Armenian History
in the next few days, says the director of the Archaeology and
Ethnography Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Aram Kalantaryan.
The exhibition will present materials dating back from the paleolite,
early Iron Age, Urartu, Ahemenid Persia ancient Armenia. Kalantaryan
says that there is much to be shown. Found Agarak, Aragatsotn region,
in the last years was a unique columbary - the grave of a Urartu
prince (preliminarily VIII BC) which was unfortunately robbed in the
following centuries. Also exposed will be fossilized traces of animals
and plants living in the area 100,000-1 mln years ago as well as
obsidian arms of ancient hunters.